Lord of the Flies

Describe the scene in which Jack and the hunters kill the sow in Chapter 8. How is the hunt particularly brutal? Respond with evidence from the text.

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The killing of the sow is much more graphic than any other killing of a pig. Golding uses disturbing rape imagery to describe Roger's overpowering and torture of the animal, "He slowly drives his spear into the anus of the sow, torturing it more than killing it". Roger in particular is discovering a twisted ecstasy of torturing for pleasure. He is perhaps the most disturbing boy in the story.